re: #401 Conservative Moonbat

One thing to be mentioned is that people get married much later in their lives now than they used to. When you’re getting married at 16, 17, or 18 there’s not a lot of time for premarital sex. If you’re waiting until you’re done with grad school and settled into a career to get hitched, there’s a lot more time for fooling around.

I believe evangelical couples still tend to get married younger. (can’t find the stat, but I’ve read it.)

*Sigh*

People in the past got married much later than you think. One of the things that was extremely notable about the American colonies was that, right up to the 1750’s, people could, indeed, get married at about 21. Then the land within the borders wasn’t as plentiful, and people were having to wait until 25 or so to marry; Europeans, it should be noted, in most classes, married in their late 20’s, not their early 20’s, because they couldn’t afford to before they’d established themselves.

It is, in fact, rather an interesting oddity of the middle of the last century that people could afford to marry quite young, and did.